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(0)Howard White
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No matter where people live on the BC coast, says Howard White, they have certain shared experiences: frustration with rain and ferries, familiarity with gumboots, bumbershoots, seagull droppings and barnacles in the wrong places. But, each little community clings to its own sense of uniqueness and considers itself the true West Coast. As a case in point, White offers fifty funny sketches of life as he has come to know it in sixty-odd years of living...
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Impact evaluation is an empirical approach to estimating the causal effects of interventions, in terms of both magnitude and statistical significance. Expanded use of impact evaluation techniques is critical to rigorously derive knowledge from development operations and for development investments and policies to become more evidence-based and effective. To help backstop more use of impact evaluation approaches, this book introduces core concepts,...
3) Remembrance
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William Arthur Tunstall, born in 1710 in Pennsylvania of Quaker parents, migrates to the Carolina Colony at age 23 to become an Indian Trader. He is successful in that endeavor and becomes a translator for the tribe, marrying the Chief's daughter and beginning a family. He begins buying land in the vicinity of Charleston and is told by the Chief, "the land is a gift from God never to be sold or traded." This promise follows him through seven generations;...
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Over the past four years and some 30,000 plus miles traveled for interviews, this book, this story, this start has been with me. No matter how often I put Southern Greats down, I was pulled back to work and bring this story forward. I was, pulled back into the purpose of teaching, inspiring, motivating, and empowering you with these stories of over forty, highly accomplished Southern University and A&M College graduates, who I call Southern Greats.
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